Outre l'édition intégrale du roman "Le Rouge et le Noir", on trouvera ici le détail des affaires judiciaires et politiques qui l'inspirèrent. On verra comment, mal compris de ses contemporains -de Balzac à Flaubert-, Stendhal reste son plus lucide critique. On découvrira aussi comment le drame de la jalousie, traité dans le roman sur le mode dramatique, renvoie en partie à l'aventure mélodramatique que vivra le musicien Hector Berlioz.
Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When she falls in love with one of them, she soon wishes she had kept her independence. She learns that love brings misery, pain, and violent passions that can destroy lives . ..
Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland’s Lac Leman, is one of James’s most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy’s friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to life the great Jamesian themes of Americans abroad, innocence versus experience, and the grip of fate. As Elizabeth Hardwick writes in her Introduction, Daisy Miller “lives on, a figure out of literature who has entered history as a name, a vision.”